Inventors who are victims of their own creations

The news of the death of the absurd, permeated by electricity excite our civilization: the author Scooter "Segway", a multimillionaire and philanthropist Jimi Heselden died, she moved down on a scooter of their own invention, with the rocky shore in the river Wharfe, in Yorkshire. 62-year-old owner of the company "Segway" peacefully toured own possessions and did not intend to take any extreme. It so happened.

However, good language suggest that came up with the ill-fated scooter is not English moneybag Jimi and American physicist Dean Kamen. In 2001, Mr. Kamen sold his young Samokatnaya business and maybe that's why he is still alive, engaged in the development of super-prostheses for those who are at war there, in everyday life there was left without one or both hands.

History knows many deaths Frankensteins from the clutches of their own golems. Sometimes deadly invention and as such are born, sometimes it was an accident, dictated by an evil rock whisper: "You gave birth to me, I'll kill you!". Who taught us all to be very careful even with what is and will remain a fair share of his own soul.

It's as if Korolev flew in space and has not returned, Edison bulb choked her and Sakharov was blown up by a hydrogen bomb.

1. Jack Daniel

Yes, yes, that Jack, who invented and unwound iconic brand of American whiskey, "Jack Daniels", died in his home in 1911 from blood poisoning as a result of kicking the safe with the money code from which the great distiller forgotten. The big toe is festering, to Dr. Daniel has not addressed. I hope everyone understands, because it is the drink of Mr. Jack forgot combination of numbers and was so angry.





2. Franz Reichelt

Reichelt, an Austrian businessman and a talented tailor, was fond to inventive activity and for their lives came up with a lot of unusual things. The last of his creations became Parachute Cloak. Franz wanted people to be able, if not to fly like a bird, though the land like an airplane. In 1912, Reichelt news gave a presentation on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower. From there to the ground about 58 meters fly. The inventor was going to lose from the lookout disguised in a cloak-parachute dummy, but at the last moment changed his mind and instead jumped stuffed himself.



Soft landing did not happen and Franz to his death under a terrible sigh crowds of potential buyers parachute. This death was preserved on film:

3. Michael Dacre

British pilot Michael Dacre walked into recent history as the inventor of "flying taxi", a small plane, designed to relieve congestion on the roads megacities.



In August 2009, 53-year-old Mr Dacre decided to try out the first instance of taxi in the skies over Malaysia. Take-off (for the third time!) And reaching a height of 200 meters with a small, airplane lost control and fell on the runway. Malaysian police have learned from flying taxis burning body of the English designer.



4. William Nelson

The guy worked for the company "General Electric", he was only 24 years old. He died in 1903, experiencing a bicycle with a motor, so to speak, moped own design - a poor fell from the snarling "clunker" sliding down the hill next to the house. So then invent bicycles.



5. William Bullock

These things could befall Ivan Fedorov, and Johannes Gutenberg. In 1863, Mr. Bullock decided to make a revolution in the printing business and invented the rotary printing machine.





Four years later, establishing and launching a new printing machine of his own design in Philadelphia, William temper kicked cranky pulley strives to fly off the rotating drum. As a result, I had to cut off his leg. A week after the amputation Bullock died of gangrene.

6. Maria Sklodowska-Curie

Madame Curie gave the world the theory of radioactivity and the practice of working with the newly open-volatile metals such as radium and polonium.



Maria died in July 1934 from leukemia. Working with radioactive substances, Curie did not take any protective measures, which could not but affect the health of the great scientist. Moreover, Mary is constantly carried a vial of radium in the pocket, the chain on the neck as a talisman ... emitting gentle blue, deadly glow



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7. Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov - Bolshevik, philosopher, scientist, naturalist, concern about rejuvenation, in 1926 founded the world's first Institute of Blood Transfusion. Bogdanov believed that if an elderly person to update the blood from young donors, it will no longer grow old. Dr. experimented on himself and 10 of them were successful. But the eleventh, in 1928, proved fatal - donated blood was infected with tuberculosis and malaria. Forgot your check or simply do not know how?



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